Re: 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)

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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:23:14 -0500
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Okay, Tim, I just reported the same bug in a previous post. So did
Julian C. Dunn. I think this is an issue with some recent code changes
in CVS...

See these threads:

critical BOOT failure updating to latest 5-Stable (5.4)
9/23/2005 12:07 AM

ATA lockup with 5.4-STABLE
9/21/2005 10:19 PM

I have privately emailed Mr. Dunn, and his problem seems a little
different perhaps, but I see some similarities. His system is an IBM
(so is mine) and his uses the Intel PIIX4 ata chipset. Mine uses the
PIIX3. Mine is by far the oldest, and yours is the newest system.

Of note maybe is that I was also using an older drive as you are, in my
case an 8 or 9 GB Quantum Fireball.

Anyway, I count three systems that are normally boting with 5.3 or 5.4,
and then the upgrade to the latest 5-Stable breaks the boot.

Perhaps you could test one of those identical machines with a simple
hard disk swap? Just put the bad booting drive in a working system and
see if the error is still there?

Has anyone checked the CVS repository for a possible change to the ATA
detection or boot code?

Can you post your dmesg for 5.3 perhaps? BTW, you can boot that machine
to the old kernel using the procedure

unload
load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
boot (or boot -v)

Do all of that with option 6 on the Boot Loader menu.

Thanks,
Billy

Tim Howe wrote:
> I've got a machine here that I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 on. It's
> identical (except for the hard drive) to another machine that I ran the
> 4.x series on for some time with no issues.
>
> I've got several other Pentium 3-based machines running 5.4-RELEASE-p3
> with a GENERIC kernel, and I have a 5.3 installer disk, so my strategy
> was to do a minimal install of 5.3, then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj
> from my organizational build server and upgrade to 5.4 from there.
>
> The 5.3 install went smoothly, make installkernel went smoothly, but
> when I tried to reboot I got an error saying that it couldn't find the
> root filesystem. Further investigation found that it wasn't able to
> find the ATA HDD (master on ata0) at all, but could find the ATAPI CDROM
> drive (master on ata0).
>
> I verified that the drive had not gone bad by again booting off the 5.3
> installer disk, which found ad0 with no difficulty. I then downloaded
> the 5.4 mini-CD, which was unable to find ad0. Finally, I swapped in
> another hard drive with identical results.
>
> Neither booting with ACPI disabled (didn't bother to check whether this
> machine even has it) nor booting in safe mode helped at all.
>
> I did happen to notice that when the 5.3 CD boots, there is a delay of
> several seconds when probing ata0. Could this be a timing issue with
> regard to the controller?
>
> The machine is a Gateway ATXSTF FED Pro M1000 with a 1GHz Pentium III
> and 256MB of RAM. It has an onboard Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller. The
> first HDD I tried was a Western Digital Caviar 32500 2559.8MB drive, and
> the second was a Caviar 24300 4311.9MB drive.
>
> If necessary, I'm willing to build custom kernels for testing purposes
> or to add debugging statements etc, if anyone can give me pointers in
> the right direction.
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